Showing posts with label Chrysler. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chrysler. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 4, 2012

Yoopers will understand why I post this, Lake Superior in November? Bad idea, remember hearing Gordon Lightfoot's song about the Edmund Fitzgerald? "Gales of November" he sang of


it's rare that anything newsworthy happens in the yoop, and I'd never heard of this one.

In nov 1926 Chrysler tried to move one ship with 248 new cars through Lake Superior. You can see that the ship ran aground after losing power steering. The cars were unloaded and waited til February for roads to become passable so the cars could get to the nearest train station

the full write up and photos from http://progress-is-fine.blogspot.ca/2012/03/wreck-of-city-of-bangor.html 

1955 stock race car (Grand National series) of Tim Flock, a Chrysler 300, worlds fastest stock sedan at 130 mph... when Nascar meant stock car











Most blunt nosed eagle hood ornament anyone ever made is my guess, Chrysler Imperial, compared to a normal one



and the above was trumped by a badge... even less hood ornament like

compared to the below "proper" hood ornament


Friday, June 15, 2012

Scraptastic Art Cars Made in Junkyard - Very Cool Video

Here is a great video of a post I did some time ago about Mel and his Atomic Ride who turns scrap cars into what I call >Scaptastic" Works of Art. A video just came out that is a must see, produced by Channel 3 in Arizona, link.

Atomic Ride Art Car

Atomic Ride Art Car Front
Atomic Ride Art Car Side Rear

Thursday, June 14, 2012

Spooky Art Car Scares Customers at Raven's Grin Inn - Jim Warfield

Spooky Art Car Scares Customers at Raven's Grin Inn - Jim Warfield
Spooky Art Car Scares Customers at Raven's Grin Inn - Jim Warfield
There aren't many Haunted Inns that come complete with spooky art cars parked in the front but owner and resident Jim Warfield has done his best to give his clients the complete package.

In the town of Mount Carroll, Ill is where you will find Raven's Grin Inn, a 19th-century mansion that's been turned into a wacky house of horrors by Jim Warfield which just happens to be located a block away from a cemetery.

Warfield rescued the house from being demolished about 20 years ago and then went on to fill it
with all kinds of freaky art projects  like the "the last Elvis impersonator" that sits decaying in a wheelchair and of course plenty of creaky, spooky and secret passages. If you are feeling up to it you can get a group of 10 and go on a tour for $10 per person per hour but you must call in advance for reservations.

What got Jim a post here on art car central was one three spooky cars, a  87 Olds station Art Car wagon, "Custom cruiser" with arms that go up and down via a 79 T-Bird Vacuum /headlight door lifter device and a reptile hood with doll trapped in its bloody teeth. I think traveling cross country in one of these with the whole family is scary enough even without the skulls, but that's just me.

It took Jim about 5 years to rebuild his spooky art car to the point were felt comfortable taking it down to the local drag strip that allows anyone to race any car for $10. If speed doesn't kill then definitely a spooky induced heart attack would be enough to beat the competition. Go get em Jim:)

Spooky Art Car Scares Customers at Raven's Grin Inn - Jim Warfield
Spooky Art Car Scares Customers at Raven's Grin Inn - Jim Warfield
Spooky Art Car Scares Customers at Raven's Grin Inn - Jim Warfield
Spooky Art Car Scares Customers at Raven's Grin Inn - Jim Warfield

Spooky Art Car Scares Customers at Raven's Grin Inn - Jim Warfield
Spooky Art Car Scares Customers at Raven's Grin Inn - Jim Warfield